Hi, Sorry if I didn't give too much information. I guess being my first time here, I didn't want to post a very long message. Anyway, you are right in that, it might be a problem of permissions. However, I set my directory permissions to 777. I still feel it is just a matter of permissions.
I have the executable that I want to run sitting in /home/<user>/Scatter/bin and the permissions are 777 on this.
For starters, any idea how apache/httpd runs or executes other scripts?
I tried running "system("ls")" from the script and it gave me the results. However, when I tried
system("ssh <machine name> pwd")
the bally thing just hung! I have ssh set up so that I can ssh from the head to the nodes without using the passwords (basically I generated the keys using keygen and then copied them onto the authorization keys).
Also, when I checked the error logs, it just gave an "Aborted by User" error.
Hope I have been a little clearer with the problem.

In reply to Re: Re: Problem with Apache and SSH: Help needed! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Problem with Apache and SSH: Help needed! by The Crumpet

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